Isaiah 54:12 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 54:12

I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

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ASV

And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.

KJV

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 11, 12.) The poor thing, torn apart by the storm without consolation. Behold, I will lay your stones in order: and I will lay your foundations in sapphires. And I will make your battlements of jasper, and your gates of carved stones, and all your boundaries of desirable stones. I will make all your children taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children. And you shall be founded in righteousness. LXX: Humble and unstable without consolation. Behold, I will prepare for you your carbuncle gem and your foundations sapphire.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And I will make thy windows of agates,.... Some sort of which stones, Pliny (x) says, were valued for their clearness like glass; but the stone which bears this name with us is not clear and lucid enough to make windows of. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "of jasper", a stone more fit for that purpose; and it is interpreted of the jasper in the Talmud (y); so "the light" of the New Jerusalem is said to be like unto the "jasper stone", Rev 21:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(2.) It is here promised in the particular instances of those things that shall be the beauty and honour of the church, which are knowledge, holiness, and love, the very image of God, in which man was created, renewed, and restored.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And I will make thy windows - The word rendered here ‘windows’ is rendered by Jerome propugnacula - ‘fortresses,’ bulwarks, ramparts; and by the Septuagint, Επαλξεις Epalcheis - ‘Bulwarks,’ or rather, pinnacles on the walls. The Hebrew word שׁמשׁות shı̂mâshôt) is evidently derived from שׁמשׁ shemesh (the sun); and has some relation in signification to the sun, either as letting in light, or as having a radiated appearance like the sun.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י	ve.sam.Ti	and I will make	H7760 →
כַּֽדְכֹד֙	kad.Khod	ruby	H3539 →
שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֔יִךְ	shim.sho.Ta.yikh	battlements your	H8121 →
וּשְׁעָרַ֖יִךְ	u.she.'a.Ra.yikh	and gates your	H8179 →
לְאַבְנֵ֣י	le.'av.Nei	<to> stones of	H68 →
אֶקְדָּ֑ח	'ek.Dach	beryl	H688 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
גְּבוּלֵ֖ךְ	ge.vu.Lekh	border your	H1366 →
לְאַבְנֵי־	le.'av.nei-	<to> stones of	H68 →
חֵֽפֶץ׃	Che.fetz	delight	H2656 →

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